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OMAHA - The Nebraska Health Network (NHN) is proud to announce that Dr. Michael Romano has been appointed to the role of Chief Medical Officer. He will begin his duties in August. Dr. Romano has been actively involved in the organization since its inception, serving most recently as president of t…

Sue Korth has built a reputation as an outstanding leader in her field; ask her and she'll quickly explain that all of that flows from the fact that her heart is and has always been in patient care.She has earned multiple academic and professional designations - Ph.D., MPH, BSN - and has served sinc…

Dr. Kilie Donovan is a hospitalist at Methodist Hospital and geriatrician at the Geriatric Assessment Clinic at Methodist Physicians Clinic. Caring for people comes naturally for Dr. Donovan, whose father is a pediatrician and mother is a nurse. She found herself helping out at her parents’ clinic …

Meeting people where they live, play and learn. Providing access to free health services. Educating community members about essential resources. As the director of Diversity and Community Engagement at Nebraska Methodist College (NMC) since 2020, Kiley Petersmith, DNP, RN, CPEN, CPN, …

Jaycee Housh, MD, doesn’t remember what exactly drew her to medicine at a young age, but she’ll never forget what led her to her specialty.“I fell in love with OB/GYN when I delivered my first baby as a medical student,” she said. “And once I realized how much variety in the day-to-day work there is…

Katie Kim, DO, was inspired at a young age by her father – a physician – to pursue a career in medicine. But it was her own “phenomenal” pediatrician who sparked her interest in caring for young people.“It’s the long-term care that I get to provide my patients,” said Dr. Kim, who sees pediatric pati…

As a counselor with the Methodist Hospital Community Counseling Program, Jacob Hedlund, PLMHP, PCMSW, enjoys making a positive impact in the lives of others.Hedlund worked for a suicide prevention hotline for five years, and he’s particularly interested in suicide prevention, self-harm prevention an…

Many nights in the Methodist Women’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), certified nursing assistant Lori Sofio, CNA, can be found cuddling babies, reassuring parents or helping nurses with a variety of duties.During the day, her daughter Ashley Sofio, CNA, a student nurse technician in th…

Ji Sun “Joy” Kim, DO, knew since high school that she wanted to become a physician.Thinking she’d go into emergency medicine because of the patient variety, she realized during medical school that “something was missing.”“I realized how much I valued the continuity of care and long-term relationship…

Before choosing a partner with which to build a new behavioral health hospital, officials with Jennie Edmundson Hospital went through what they described as an extensive process to vet their future collaborator.Omaha World-Herald: Jennie Edmundson committed to Acadia partnership, despite recent crit…